Publications of John Butler

Note: The following printer, bookseller, or publisher lists are works in progress. They are generated from title page imprints and may reproduce false and misleading attributions or contain errors.

What does "printed by" mean? How to read the roles ascribed to people in the imprints.

In terms of the book trades, the lists below are sorted into up to four groups where: the person is designated in the imprint as having a single role:

  1. "printed by x"; or
  2. "sold by x"; or
  3. "printed for x" or "published by x";

or as having the seller and printer roles in combination, or an absence of the printer's name following "London: printed:" or "London: printed,":

  1. "printed and sold by x"; or "printed for and sold by x"; or "printed by and for x"; or "printed: and sold by x"; or "printed, and sold by x";  and so on.

On this last point, trade publishers may seem to have "printed" or "published" the work, though they did not own the copyright. The lists below reflect only the information on the imprint, except where ESTC provides extra information.

See also "The Meaning of the Imprint."

Printed by John Butler

  • Smith, Edmund. Phædra and Hippolitus. An opera. Composed by Mr. Thomas Roseingrave. Dublin: printed by John Butler, 1753. ESTC No. N20412. Grub Street ID 9813.

Printed for John Butler

  • Cooke, Thomas. A sermon preacht in the parochial church of St. Nicholas in the city of Worcester, on Wednesday the 19th of January, being the day of the general fast. By Thomas Cooke, M.A. and rector of the said parish. Publisht at the request of the gentlemen, and other inhabitants at a vestry meeting. Whereunto is added A short account of the lamentable and remarkable fire at Worcester, wherein a whole family of nine persons perisht in the flames. Oxford: printed by Leonard Lichfield, for John Butler bookseller in Worcester, 1704. ESTC No. T47947. Grub Street ID 275925.

Author

  • Butler, John. The political fugitive: being a brief disquisition into the modern system of British politics; and the unparalleled rigor of political persecution: together with several miscellaneous observations on the abuses and corruptions of the English government. Written during a voyage from London to New-York. By John Butler, author of several political tracts in England. [Six lines of verse]. New-York: M.DCC.XCIV.--Printed by Thomas Greenleaf, for the author, [1794]. ESTC No. W27738. Grub Street ID 337850.